TVSquad

If you tuned in last night -- and before the overnight ratings are even announced, I'm thinking that a lot of you did (taping Lost, like I did) -- you know now that we are down to the American Idol Top 10. These are the ten who will be touring the country doing American Idol concerts later this year and one of these contestants will be the next big AI winner. The next Kelly or Carrie or Clay (oh, wait, he didn't win).

So, who has the best chance and what does he or she have to do to get to the winner's circle? I've a prescription for each one of them -- free, unsolicited advice based on how the judges' view them and, more importantly, how the American public might be rating them.

South Park kicked off their 13th season (dear God, did I just say 13th? I couldn't feel older right now if I had to get my bifocals to read the instructions on a box of Depends) the way the show's longtime fans expect them to kick off every season: by kicking the latest flavor of the month, flash in the pan whatever square in the bean bag.

Sometimes their target is a woman, of course, and that's when they do whatever women call it when they get so mad, they physically want to fight each other. I believe the word is "hot as #*$(ing hell."

I cheated and looked it up on Wikipedia. Sorry.

When I saw the first promo for the new ABC comedy Carpoolers it was at the same time I saw the preview for the new ABC comedy Cavemen. Both took place in a car and neither of them were that funny. Since then, however, my respect for Carpoolers had grown to the point that it may be a show I may tune in to watch for the first few episodes (if ABC let's it last that long).

That was until last night. Now, I'll definitely be making sure to tune in to the show when it premieres on October 2nd thanks to a new promo that's been airing on the network and the family of Disney-owned channels. It's nothing spectacular, really. Just the four characters in the carpool driving along listening to the radio. Of course the song they're listening to is a little Phil Collins ditty called In the Air Tonight. And, the part of the song that we hear is one that is extremely famous to air drummers world round.